Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic

Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by mental1896 on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:44PM (#16777230)

This is a very interesting point. The internet brings its users ever closer together and it's not beyond reason to imagine this closeness reaching a point where it is similar to the closeness experienced by ancient tribes. Today we would find it hard to imagine, say, seeing our neighbors naked but it was once very normal. So we've come to expect a certain amount of privacy.

A reduction in this privacy might precipitate a change in how people react to learning the private affairs of others. If everybody's legal history was laid bare, for instance, one might discover that getting in trouble is something quite a lot of people do--and in this light one might temper his reaction to learning of another's checkered past.

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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by rhacker on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:41PM (#16778475)

Except this theory doesn't work with today's search technology. For popular people (or social media queens) you will see exactly what they you want to see on the first 200 pages. For lesser popular people with names like "Jenny Zarkaneflaky" (fake person you don't need to google) you will see the one time they smoked pot and got quoted in the school newspaper for saying all people on the planet should die.

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